| Students Win Awards at Science & Engineering Fair |
2009-04-16 14:45:35 Ten Fox Chapel Area School District students recently won awards at the 70th Annual Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair (PRSEF). Fox Chapel Area High School senior Akansh Murthy received first place in the senior medicine/health/microbiology category, and he also received the Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation, the American Statistical Association – Pittsburgh Chapter, and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh sponsor awards and an Associate Scientist Perseverance Award. Dorseyville Middle School eighth grader Gautam Swamynathan won second place in the intermediate behavioral and social science category. Eighth grader Karthik Narayanan was awarded third place in the intermediate computer science/math category and also received a Junior Scientist Perseverance Award. Eighth grader Susheel Khetarpal was awarded an honorable mention in the intermediate biology category and sixth grader Anandhini Narayanan won an honorable mention in the junior life science category. Junior Kohana Leuba received sponsor awards from the Princeton Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania, the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute at AGH, and an Honorable Mention from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Sophomore Alimpon Sinha received an affiliate award from the U.S. Air Force. Additionally, seniors Yanbo Chang and Praveen Tummalapalli each received an Honorary Scientist Perseverance Award and eighth grader Manu Goyal received a Junior Scientist Perseverance Award. Praveen also received a Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Sponsor Award.
Nearly 1,000 students in grades 6-12 from 99 schools from 13 counties in Pennsylvania and one county in Maryland participated in the Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair and more than $750,000 was awarded in cash prizes and scholarships. All of the students who participated in the fair conducted individual science research, constructed a display, and explained their work to a committee of judges. The science fair was held at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh April 3 and 4, 2009.
The Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair, a program of Carnegie Science Center’s SciTech initiative, has been a Pittsburgh tradition since 1940. It is the third oldest science fair in the United States under the affiliation of the Society for Science & the Public (SSP).
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